Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.